"Sedaris has a satirical brazenness that holds up next to Mark Twain and Nathanael West." ( The New Yorker) "Sedaris' piquant essays are as meticulously honed and precisely timed as the best stand-up comic routines, which is, of course, what they are.Sedaris, openly gay, nervy as a tightrope walker, sharply hilarious, teasingly misanthropic yet genuinely compassionate, has a unique ability to supply exactly the right details to bring every funny, awkward, ludicrous, painful, horrible real-life moment into harrowingly crisp focus.He is mesmerizing." ( Booklist) "Sedaris is a careful writer, with a no-muss, no-fuss style that rarely misfires." ( The New York Times Book Review) The 27 essays here include his best and funniest writing yet.What emerges is the deepest kind of humor, the human comedy." ( Publishers Weekly) This is not to suggest that the author of Me Talk Pretty One Day and other best-selling books has lost his edge. "In his latest collection, Sedaris has found his heart. Audie Award Winner, Humor and Short Stories/Collections, 2005.
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